Christie Brinkley's Ex-husband Peter Cook, 60, Engaged to 21-Year-old College Student

Mar. 16, 2025

Peter Cook, the ex-husband ofChristie Brinkley, is headed for the altar again.

The 60-year-old, Hamptons-based architect recently got engaged to his 21-year-old girlfriend Alba Jancou, PEOPLE confirms.

“We are very happy,” Cook tells PEOPLE.

The couple was vacationing in Santorini, Greece, on Sept. 15 when Cook popped the question with a six-carat Glenn Bradford diamond ring in front of a church,Page Six reports.

“We consider ourselves incredibly lucky to have found, in each other, our soulmate,” Cook added in a statement to Page Six. “We are looking forward to many years of wedded bliss!”

Alba Jancou and Peter Cook.Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images

Peter Cook

Cook, who shares two kids with his ex-wife — a daughter namedSailor, 21, and Jack, 24, Brinkley’s son whom Cook adopted — has reportedly been dating Jancou for about a year.

Prior to her time at the New Orleans, Louisiana college, Jancou “attended a prestigious English private boarding school” called Millfield, located in southern England.

Alba Jancou and Peter Cook.Sonia Moskowitz/Getty Images

Alba Jancou and Peter Cook

This will be Cook’s third marriage. He was previously married to Brinkley from 1996 to 2008. The former couple divorced after Brinkley learned of Cook’s affair with his then-19-year-old assistant Diana Bianchi.

Shortly after his cheating scandal broke, Cook then married Suzanne Shaw. The pair split in 2014.

After Bianchi came forward in 2007, Cook was also accused of having romantic relations with another former employee, Samantha Cole, who was 18 at the time.

He allegedly proposed marriage to her in May 1996 — three months before he became engaged to Brinkley — but she declined.

source: people.com